2009 – 2010 ANNUAL REPORT

PARTNERING FOR JUSTICE

www.citybarjusticecenter.org

42 West 44th Street • New York, NY 10036 • T 212.382.6727 • F 212.221.5318

© 2010 New York City Bar. All rights reserved. Design: Carrie Chatterson Studio LLC

Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. 2010–2011 Board of Directors

PresidentSamuel W. Seymour Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

ChairAustin T. Fragomen, Jr. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

Vice PresidentsMichael J. Chepiga Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Barbara Berger Opotowsky New York City Bar

Wanji J. Walcott American Express

TreasurerDonald S. Bernstein Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Assistant TreasurerCarol S. Rosenbaum, C.P.A. New York City Bar

Secretary Mary K. Warren Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

General Counsel Alan Rothstein New York City Bar

DirectorsDavid J.B. Arroyo Scripps Networks

Nina M. Beattie Brune & Richard LLP

Alan J. Brudner Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Miriam A. Buhl Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Kwanza Butler Time Warner Inc.

Francis S. Chlapowski Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Hon. George B. Daniels U.S. District Court, SDNY

Cheryl R. David Law Office of Cheryl R. David

Michael B. de Leeuw Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Michael Delikat Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Jonathan N. Eisenberg UBS

Michele Hirshman Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Jay Holtmeier Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Conrad A. Johnson Columbia University School of Law

Edward S. Kornreich Proskauer Rose LLP

Ronald L. Marmer Jenner & Block LLP

Robin J.H. Maxwell Linklaters LLP

Hazel-Ann Mayers CBS Broadcasting Inc.

Sara E. Moss The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Hon. Juanita Bing Newton New York State Judicial Institute

Paul Schoeman Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Jeffrey Taylor Ernst & Young LLP

Barron M. Tenny The Ford Foundation

William Viets JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jim Walden Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Jane L. Wilton The New York Community Trust

Administration

Executive DirectorLynn M. Kelly

Managing AttorneyAlice Morey

Director of Pro Bono InitiativesCarol Bockner

Director of DevelopmentRebecca Nelson

Director of CommunicationsEric Friedman

Administrative AssistantDeidre Smith

The City Bar Justice Center’s mission is to increase access to justice by leveraging the resources of the New York City legal community. Drawing upon our relationship with the New York City Bar, the Justice Center provides legal assistance to those in need; mobilizes lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments, and other legal institutions to provide pro bono legal services; educates the public on legal issues; fosters strategic relationships; and impacts public policy.

Corporate Legal Departments

Academic Institutions

Law Firms

Legal Services & Nonprofit Organizations

Government Agencies Judiciary

City Bar FundIn addition to the City Bar Justice Center, the City Bar Fund supports the research, educational,

and public service activities of the following New York City Bar programs:

OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY

Created to affirm the commitment of New York City law firms and

corporate legal departments to diversity goals that have specific

time targets and milestones, the Office for Diversity annually tracks

the progress of its 126 signatories to the Association’s

Statement of Diversity Principles, which it adopted in 2003. The

Office designs programs that foster a more diverse and inclusive

legal profession, such as the Annual Diversity Champion Award,

which recognizes individuals who initiate and sustain change within

their organizations and the New York legal community.

NEW YORK CITY LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The Lawyers Assistance Program provides free, confidential

assistance to attorneys, judges, law students, and their families

who are experiencing problems with alcohol, drugs, depression,

and stress, as well as other addictions and mental health issues.

Evaluation, intervention, referral, outreach, and education is

provided by professional staff and peer support based on the

concept of “lawyers helping lawyers.”

CYRUS R. VANCE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

Working with law firms, bar associations, educational institutions,

and NGOs around the globe, the Vance Center seeks to expand

access to justice in young democracies and developing economies.

Collaborating across borders, the Center’s ongoing work includes

recruiting and supporting volunteer lawyers to work on interna-

tional public interest projects; creating a network of justice reform

advocates in Africa and Latin America; and building VanceNet.org,

a web-based, global community of advocates to promote access to

social justice.

AWARDS

• Jeremy G. Epstein Award, recognizing outstanding

volunteer attorneys with the City Bar Justice Center’s

pro bono programs.

• Bernard Botein Medal, recognizing employees of the

courts of the First Judicial Department

• Legal Services Award, honoring lawyers providing

full-time, pro bono legal services to the needy

• Municipal Affairs Award, recognizing outstanding

young lawyers in the New York City Law Department

• Henry L. Stimson Award, recognizing Assistant U.S.

Attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of

New York

• Kathryn A. McDonald Award, for service to the New

York City Family Court

• Thomas E. Dewey Award, recognizing outstanding

Assistant District Attorneys in each of the five boroughs

and in the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office

LECTURES

• Milton Handler Antitrust Review, Herman Goldman and

Mortimer H. Hess Lectures on trusts, estates, and taxation

• Leslie H. Arps, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Hon. George Bundy Smith,

Barbara Paul Robinson, and Orison S. Marden Lectures

• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women

and the Law

“Thank you for the risk you took to advocate

on my behalf in what I consider was the most

difficult period of my life. Yet I never doubted

that your organization would succeed even

though there were no guarantees. My son and

I are enjoying our home and our peace thanks

to your program.” —Client

On April 5th, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (right) delivered the annual Leslie H. Arps Lecture at the City Bar. Over 500 attendees listened to her address on the importance of judicial independ-ence and civic education. Pictured with Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge, NYS Court of Appeals.

October 2010

Dear Friends, When the Haitian earthquake struck in January of this year, the City Bar

Justice Center put out the call for pro bono volunteers, and within 24

hours over 150 attorneys volunteered to staff a large-scale legal clinic

to help Haitians in New York City apply for Temporary Protected Status.

The City Bar Justice Center specializes in both innovative pro bono projects

designed to mobilize pro bono lawyers to meet the emerging issues of

our time and long-term projects in areas of persistent need, such as asylum,

homelessness, consumer debt and bankruptcy, domestic violence, and

trafficking. Pro bono efforts such as our entrepreneur project and our

life planning project present opportunities for non-litigators to take on

transactional work and address areas of unmet legal needs.

The Justice Center’s Legal Hotline exemplifies our efforts to make it easy for hundreds of low-income

callers each month to access fast, simple legal advice when appropriate as well as referrals. Our projects

also reach many more needy New Yorkers with education and materials in partnership with effective

community organizations. The Justice Center’s strong relationship with the New York City Bar allows us to

mobilize all segments of the profession, from law firms and corporate legal departments to government

offices, non-profits, and law schools. Together we can represent low-income clients in need, educate the

public on important legal issues of the day, foster strategic relationships, and impact public policy.

In the spirit of our theme for this year, “Partnering for Justice,” we thank you for supporting our work

over the past year. During this recession, the City Bar Justice Center has been able to persevere in our

work to increase access to justice, and we’ve enjoyed some considerable successes. With your help, our

projects have addressed the challenges of our time, and we look forward to building new partnerships

in the future.

Sincerely,

Samuel W. Seymour Barbara Berger Opotowsky Austin T. Fragomen, Jr. Lynn M. Kelly President Vice President Chair Executive Director, Justice Center

Immigrant Women and Children Project Ms. G is a Jamaican immigrant who was the victim of a violent assault and assisted with the investigation and prosecution of the crime. The Justice Center matched her with a pro bono attorney who helped her obtain her U Visa. The volunteer also advocated for months with the U.S. embassy in Jamaica to get appointments for her two children to receive their visas, and they have finally reunited with their mother in the U.S. after eight years of separation. The volunteer is now working with all the family members to extend their status and help Ms. G obtain her green card.

SUCCESSES

Neighborhood Entrepreneur

Law Project hosts 10 Spring

clinics for 144 low-income

microentrepreneurs with

community partners. Law

firms partner with corporate

legal departments to assist

New Yorkers with a dream.

Justice Center partners

with Civil Court on

successful pilot of Lawyer

for a Day Project in

Housing Court, assisting

178 clients this year.

Justice Center hosts eight

training sessions for deferred

associates assisting NYC

nonprofit and government

law offices.

Legal Clinic for the Homeless

successfully advocates for

increase in carfare allowance,

which enables homeless

families to search for perma-

nent housing, benefitting

thousands of families in

the shelter system.

Pro bono volunteer

successfully battles insurer

on behalf of breast cancer

patient denied coverage

for life-saving surgery on

the basis of “pre-existing

condition.” Patient’s success

story was detailed in The

New York Times “Neediest

Cases” section.

Inaugural Jeremy G.

Epstein Awards are

presented to 10

outstanding Justice

Center volunteers at

luncheon in connection

with the National

Celebration of Pro

Bono Service.

MA

Y

JULY

SE

PT

EM

BE

R

JUN

E

AU

GU

ST

OC

TO

BE

R

09

When Mr. Z, a Vietnam War veteran and father of two, came to the Veterans Assistance Project in December 2009, he was only rated at 10% disability for PTSD. Having experienced a worsening of his symptoms, he spoke with a volunteer attorney about his options to receive additional compensation. Less than a year later, his attorney’s advocacy on his behalf resulted in raising his PTSD rating to 50%, a finding of 100% unemployability, and a grant of basic eligibility for Dependents’ Education Assistance. Mr. Z will now receive a monthly award of $2,823, effective back to the date when the claim was filed.

Veterans Assistance Project

Partnering for Pro Bono Across New York City

SUCCESSES

NYC Know Your Rights

Project is featured on the

front page of The New York

Times when Justice Center

issues report finding over

one-third of immigrant

detainees have a legal

claim but no lawyer.

NO

VE

MB

ER

Within 24 hours following

devastating earthquake,

Justice Center recruits

150 attorneys to assist

Haitians in NYC to apply

for Temporary Protected

Status. 83 Haitians are helped

at clinic held at City Bar.

JAN

UA

RY

Justice Center creates

Consumer Bankruptcy

clinics to address increased

need and trains 50 new

volunteers who will

participate at 15 clinics,

cutting waiting list in half.

MA

RC

H

Victories begin to come in

on veterans’ disability cases.

Justice Center has trained

over 400 attorneys from 67

law firms to help veterans

pursue disability claims.

Legal Hotline receives

increasing number of

requests for assistance with

consumer cases, including

foreclosure and debt relief.

DE

CE

MB

ER

Justice Center convenes

roundtable for immigration

advocates with Department

of Homeland Security

Assistant Secretary John

Morton. Topics include the

closing of the Varick Federal

Detention Facility.

FEB

RU

AR

Y

Over 600 members of the

legal community attend

the Justice Center’s Fifth

Annual Gala to support our

pro bono efforts. JPMorgan

Chase & Co. and Paul,

Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton

& Garrison receive the City

Bar Justice Award recogniz-

ing their leadership and

dedication to public service.

AP

RIL

10

City Bar Justice Center Projects at a GlanceThe City Bar Justice Center’s projects are focused in three areas: economic

justice, immigrant justice, and access to justice initiatives. The projects,

complemented by a high-volume legal hotline and a pro bono program

development clearinghouse, address the unmet needs for civil legal services

in New York City. The Justice Center continues to adapt dynamically to the

city’s evolving legal landscape, evidenced by the creation of a Foreclosure

Project in response to the nationwide mortgage crisis. Our model is efficient

and effective: projects are developed and overseen by an experienced legal

expert, coordinated by a dedicated staff member, and delivered through

pro bono volunteer lawyers and community outreach.

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

The Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law

Project provides legal assistance to low-

income microentrepreneurs in the initial

stages of structuring a company or

strengthening an existing business.

The Consumer Bankruptcy Project is

one of only two pro bono bankruptcy

projects in New York City providing legal

assistance to low-income consumers with

outstanding debts, assisting debtors filing

pro se bankruptcy petitions, and providing

pro bono representation to debtors in

contested matters.

The Elderlaw Project maintains the dignity

and independence of elderly people by

training pro bono attorneys who counsel and

represent seniors in a variety of legal areas.

The Cancer Advocacy Project provides

cancer patients, survivors, and their families

with legal information and pro bono legal

assistance on issues relating to discrimination

in the workplace, health law, insurance

issues, access to public benefits, advance

directives, and wills.

The Foreclosure Project includes the

Lawyers Foreclosure Intervention Network,

co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of

New York, and additional efforts supported

by the New York State Banking Department

and New York State Housing Trust Fund

Corporation. We recruit, train, and mentor

pro bono attorneys to assist distressed

homeowners in an effort to preserve homes

and minimize damage to creditworthiness.

The Legal Clinic for the Homeless

provides advice, advocacy, and represen-

tation to residents of homeless shelters on a

variety of matters related to public benefits.

The Project sponsors legal clinics at homeless

shelters, with services provided by a partner-

ing law firm or corporate legal department.

The Veterans Assistance Project recruits,

trains, and mentors volunteer attorneys to

provide pro bono assistance to veterans in

connection with the filing of disability benefit

claims before the New York Regional Office

of the Veterans Administration.

IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

The Immigrant Women and Children

Project assists survivors of violence, abuse,

and human trafficking in legalizing their

immigration status. Project staff also trains

law enforcement, community-based

organizations, and NGOs about the legal

remedies available to these crime victims.

The Refugee Assistance Project represents

individuals who have suffered torture and

other forms of persecution in their home

countries and who are seeking asylum in the

U.S. The project also assists with filing relative

petitions and obtaining asylum-related

benefits such as employment authorization,

refugee travel documents, and green cards.

The Immigrant Outreach Project is a

collaboration of the Justice Center and

community-based organizations, including

the South Queens Boys and Girls Club and

Children’s Aid Society. The project provides

accurate information about immigrant rights

and options, as well as assistance in the

preparation of naturalization applications.

The NYC Know Your Rights Project is

a partnership between the Justice Center,

The Legal Aid Society, American Immigration

Lawyers Association, and the private bar

that provides advice and legal information

to immigrant detainees.

ACCESS TO JUSTICE INNOVATIONS

The Legal Hotline is the largest free general

civil legal hotline in New York City, providing

assistance to low- and moderate-income

callers on a variety of legal issues.

The City Bar Public Service Network

serves as a clearinghouse for pro bono

opportunities throughout New York City

and develops innovative legal and non-legal

volunteer placements for attorneys.

“We are here too short a time not to do some justice when we can…” —Justice Center Volunteer

Financial StatementAssociation of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc.

April 30, 2010

Assets

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Investments at Fair Market Value

Pledges Receivable

Accounts Receivable and Current Assets

Library Books and Works of Art, at nominal value

Property and Equipment (net)

Total Assets

Liabilities and Fund Balances

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Fund Balances

Total Liabilities and Fund Balances

Sources of Operating Support Expenses by Function

04/30/10 04/30/09

40% Corporate & Law Firms

17% Government

16% Foundations & Trusts

17% Individuals

4% Bar Association Support6% Donated Services

78%Legal Services

14% Education & Research

3% General & Administrative

5% Fundraising

$ 807,782

4,430,946

356,450

33,599

1

21,007

$ 5,649,785

$ 138,536

5,511,249

$ 5,649,785

$ 571,108

3,596,757

804,208

31,800

1

30,964

$ 5,034,838

$ 278,438

4,756,400

$ 5,034,838

City Bar Fund SupportersMay 1, 2009 to April 20, 2010

Thank you for your partnership and generosity!

The City Bar Fund is deeply grateful to all of our partners for your generous support. Although we strive to ensure the accuracy of these lists, errors may still occur. If you find an error, please accept our apologies and contact us at 212.382.6661 so we may correct it.

INDIVIDUALS

$50,000 and Above

Anonymous

Amy K. Epstein

Robert M. Kaufman

$25,000 – $49,999

Austin T. Fragomen, Jr.

Grace Lyu-Volckhausen

$15,000 – $24,999

Patricia M. Hynes &

Roy L. Reardon

Samuel & Karen Seymour

Jane C. Sherburne

$10,000 – $14,999

S. Todd Crider

Edwin S. Maynard

Barbara Paul Robinson

Antonia Stolper

$5,000 – $9,999

Stuart H. Coleman

Evan A. Davis

Stephen Fishbein

Edward S. Kornreich

Eugene & Carol Ludwig

Taisa Markus

Bettina & Kenneth Plevan

$1,000 – $4,999

Peter T. Barbur

Helaine M. Barnett

Nina M. Beattie

Susan L. Bender

Donald S. Bernstein

Sheila L. Birnbaum

Charles W. Bradley

Louis J. Briskman

Robert E. Buckholz, Jr.

Michael A. Cardozo

Michael Joseph Chepiga

Denny Chin

Maria Cilenti & Michael Embler

Wayne D. Collins

Michael A. Cooper

Mark Geoffrey Cunha

Cheryl R. David

Frederick T. Davis

Jonathan N. Eisenberg

Robert B. Fiske, Jr.

Michael Fitzgerald

Beatrice S. Frank

Frances M. Friedman

Faith E. Gay

Jeffrey Gracer

Sean Hagan

Peter R. Haje

Michele Hirshman

Gregory P. Joseph

Yukako Kawata

John J. Kenney

Joel S. Klaperman

Ray & Sanford Klein

Alan W. Kornberg

Kenneth & Susan Kramer

Mei Lin Kwan-Gett

W. Jeffrey Lawrence

Susan B. Lindenauer

James & Nancy Lipscomb

Ronald L. Marmer

Patricia A. McGovern

Joseph T. McLaughlin

Cathleen McLaughlin

Barbara Mendelsohn

Daphna H. Mitchell

Mark C. Morril

Gary P. Naftalis

Lynn & Rob Neuner

Danforth Newcomb

Sidney S. Rosdeitcher

Eric & Laurie Roth

David A. Schulz

Felice K. Shea

John Sand Siffert

Kenneth Stein

Erica H. Steinberger

Audrey Strauss

Kathleen M. Sullivan

James P. Tallon

Takemi Ueno

George J. Wade

Wanji J. Walcott

Jim Walden

Mary K. Warren

Alan G. Weiler

Jane L. Wilton

Under $1,000

Jaculin Aaron

Stewart D. Aaron

Alton L. Abramowitz

Karen E. Abravanel

Howard J. Aibel

Roger L. Anderson

Eleanor S. Applewhaite

Abigail Arms

David J.B. Arroyo

Stuart J. Baskin

John E. Baumgardner, Jr.

Ron & Linda Bayer

Marshall Beil

Barry Berke

Laurie Berke-Weiss

Joel I. Berson

Victoria & Hank Bjorklund

James I. Black, III.

Janet L. Blakeman

Lawrence A. Blatte

Alan Gordon Brenner

Bill Brentani

Simeon Brinberg

David M. Brodsky

Ronald P. Brotherton

Alan J. Brudner

Evelyn Buckstein

Mara D. Byrne

Robert Carswell

Richard Cashman

Theresa Ann Cerezola

Mark A. Chertok

Francis Chlapowski

Cathleen A. Clements

Mahoney Cohen

Cynthia M. Cohen

Jason A. Cohen

Susan Michelle Cohen

Howard M. Cohen

Lewis G. Cole

Clare B. Connaughton

John P. Cooney, Jr.

Richard Bennett Cooper

Barry Cozier

Stephen G. Crane

Alice Welt Cunningham

Catherine Curry

Susan S. Danoff

George A. Davidson

Michael B. De Leeuw

William Dean

Robert G. DeLaMater

Joseph J. DiMona

Caroline R. Donhauser

William Dougherty

Margaret H. Douglas-Hamilton

Kevin Dowling

William M. Dreyer

Robert Dominick Duke

Karen Eckhoff

Matthew L. Eilenberg

Leonard Eisenberg

Betty Weinberg Ellerin

Sheldon H. Elsen

John Ericson & Jainee C. McCarroll

Robert Evans, III.

Jeff Facter

John D. Feerick

Ira M. Feinberg

Rorri Feinstein

Michael S. Feldberg

Patricia L. Feldman

Denise R. Fenton

Fred N. Fishman

Jerome S. Fortinsky

David L. Fox

Helen E. Freedman

Eric M. Freedman

Alan R. Friedman

Barry H. Garfinkel

Paula Gellman

Martha E. Gifford

Barbara S. Gillers

Morton David & Florence Goldberg

Jane R. Goldberg

Harvey J. Goldschmid

“Through my work at the City Bar Justice Center, I have

been given a rare opportunity to make a significant

difference in someone’s life.” —Justice Center Volunteer

Emily M. Gottlieb

Alan S. Goudiss

Bruce A. Green

Jonathan Greenblatt

Allan L. Gropper

John Gueli

Robert H. Haines

Melvyn H. Halper

Susan U. Halpern

Edward I. Handelman

Conrad K. Harper

Joan B. Heckerling

Alice H. Henkin

James D. Herschlein

Joseph C. Hill

Michael W. Hilliard

Adria S. Hillman

G. Malcolm Holderness

Sanford Holo

Richard R. Howe

Lawrence Iason

David W. Ichel

Steven L. Ingerman

Samuel W. Ingram, Jr.

Adeel Jamaluddin

Andrew Janszky

Conrad A. Johnson, III.

Meredith B. Jones

Patience E. Jones

Roberta Kalachman

Rhoda H. Karpatkin

Stephen Kass

Jay Kassis

Robert J. Katz

Beth L. Kaufman

Joseph Kaufman

Marjorie Kaye, Jr.

Doris Barbara Keeley

John Kerr

James Kerr

George A. Kirschenbaum

Philip L. Kirstein

Alan M. Klein

Phyllis A. Klein

Hilary Klein

Susan J. Kohlmann

Kerry Konrad

Russ Korins

Edna Berk Kuhn

Edward Labaton

Linda B. Lakhdhir

Elizabeth S. Landis

Nancy F. Lang

Sander Lehrer

Edwin Deane Leonard

Jack Lerner

Lucinda Lew

Muriel M. Liberto

Douglas S. Liebhafsky

Carol B. Liebman

Elisa Lim

Albert L. Lingelbach

Richard G. Liskov

Bonnell M. Lombardi

John Lombrano

Walter & Diana Looney

E. Nobles Lowe

Mitchell A. Lowenthal

Henry A. Lowet

Robert MacCrate

Edward F. Malone

Donald M. Manasse

Deborah Sari Mansfield

Daniel Markewich

Linda Martin

Stephen James Marzen

Andrea Masley

Deborah Masucci

Hazel-Ann Mayers

David E. McCraw

Edward T. McDermott

Cyrus D. Mehta

Esther Altaras Meyers

Jennifer M. Mone

Carlos M. Morales

Thomas H. Moreland

Robert H. Mundheim

Kathleen A. Murray

Kay C. Murray

Michael Mushlin

Juanita Bing Newton

Matthew Nimetz

Christina Nooney

Deborah & Philip Nord

Robert F. Nostramo

William O’Brien

Francesca Odell

Jeanne C. Olivier

James Bernard O’Neal

Barbara Berger Opotowsky

Richard E. Organisciak

Jeffrey D. Osterman

Wayne N. Outten

Vincent Pagano

Daniel Paretsky

Donna Parisi

Seth I. Perlman

Kerri-Ann Philp

John Pierce

Gerome R. Pinkins

Brian H. Polovoy

Bruce & Mary Prager

Robert M. Pyle, Jr.

Debra L. Raskin

Marc Rauch

Lorraine & Robert W. Reeder, III.

Glenn Reiter

Thomas Rice

Rosalyn Heather Richter

Lawrence Rivkin

Mordecai Rochlin

Kathy Hellenbrand Rocklen

William J. F. Roll, III.

Oren Root

Michael A. Ross

Stanley Rothenberg

Alan J. Rothstein

Ira I. Roxland

Cynthia B. Rubin

Mimi K. Rupp

William T. Russell, Jr.

Bradley K. Sabel

Catherine C. Samuels

Harold H. Saunders

Jess Saypoff

Lynn Hecht Schafran

Michael E. Schwab

Richard F. Schwed

Keith E. Secular

Eric A. Seiff

Steven P. Seltzer

James M. Shaughnessy

Margaret L. Shaw

Winthrop Allen Short

Shirley Adelson Siegel

Jacqueline W. Silbermann

Rhonda K. Singer

Jeffery Smith

Marjorie M. Smith

Michael R. Sonberg

Thomas E. Spath

David Spokony

Erik J. Stapper

Sidney H. Stein

Elizabeth S. Stong

Richard M. Strassberg

Claire Svetlik

Ronald J. Tabak

Flora Tartakovsky

Kimberly Tate-Brown

Jeremiah L. Thomas, III.

Ellen Fluhr Thomas

Janine M. Tramontana

Nora Jane Tronto

Ihenji Ugenyi

Melissa M. Urofsky

John Walker

Avrom S. Waxman

Henry Weisburg

Gregory Weiss

Susan J. Weiswasser

Carroll D. Welch

Thacher W. White

Judith Whiting & Arthur Baer

Merrie Faye Witkin

Eric Cooke Woglom

Michael Wolitzer

David Woll

Michael D. Young

Holly K. Youngwood

Edward F. Zagajeski

Mary Marsh Zulack

Foreclosure Project Mr. and Mrs. H worked hard to run their small family business, but it failed following a death in the family. They suffered a loss of income, and, unable to make the payments on their subprime mortgage, their home went into foreclosure. Mr. H then suffered a massive stroke. The Foreclosure Project assisted the family in obtaining a permanent HAMP modification of the first mortgage and obtained funds from The New York Times “Neediest Cases Fund” to completely pay off their second lien mortgage. As a result, Mr. and Mrs. H were able to keep the home, where they live with their two sons.

SUCCESSES

LAW FIRMS

$100,000 and Above

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen,

& Loewy LLP

$75,000 – $99,999

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

$50,000 – $74,999

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &

Garrison LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher

& Flom LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

$25,000 – $49,999

Allen & Overy LLP

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &

Jacobson LLP

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &

McCloy LLP

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Proskauer Rose LLP

Shearman & Sterling LLP

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

$15,000 – $24,999

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Jones Day

Linklaters LLP

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

$10,000 – $14,999

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Blank Rome LLP

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Dechert LLP

DLA Piper US LLP

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC

Hughes Hubbard & Reed

Jenner & Block LLP

Kaye Scholer LLP

Kobre & Kim LLP

Latham & Watkins LLP

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason,

Anello & Bohrer, P.C.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Sidley Austin LLP

Vladeck, Waldman, Elias &

Engelhard. P.C.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale

and Dorr LLP

Under $10,000

Brune & Richard LLP

Cohen Hennessey Bienstock

& Rabin PC

Crowell & Moring LLP

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Duane Morris LLP

Hafetz Necheles & Rocco

Hogan & Hartson LLP

Hunton & Williams LLP

Jackson Lewis LLP

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres

& Friedman LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Labaton Sucharow LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

Mayerson Stutman Abramowitz LLP

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Menaker & Herrmann LLP

Nixon Peabody LLP

Outten & Golden LLP

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Reed Smith LLP

Weiss, Buell & Bell

CORPORATIONS

$50,000 and Above

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

$25,000 – $49,999

Citigroup Inc.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

$15,000 – $24,999

MetLife, Inc.

News Corporation

The Goldman Sachs Group

Time Warner Inc.

$10,000 – $14,999

BNY Mellon

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Deloitte.

Marsh

Pfizer, Inc

USI Affinity

Under $10,000

American Express Company

CBS Corporation

Eisner LLP

General Electric Company

JAMS

Merck

Network of Trial Law Firms, Inc.

Promontory Financial Group, LLC

The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.

UBS Investment Bank

Viacom Inc.

FOUNDATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & INDIVIDUAL GRANTS

$100,000 and Above

New York Community Trust

$50,000 – $99,000

Bequest from the Estate of

Ernest C. Guerri, In Memory

of His Father, Galiano E. Guerri

Greater New York City Affiliate

of Susan G. Komen for the

Cure, Inc.

New York State Lawyers

Assistance Trust

Sheila Kelley Kaufman Fund

Tinker Foundation

$25,000 – $49,999

Judges and Lawyers Breast

Cancer Alert

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

Mary J. Hutchins Foundation, Inc.

Tiger Baron Foundation

$10,000 – $24,999

American College of Bankruptcy

American College of Bankruptcy

Foundation

Anonymous

George B. Storer Foundation

Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation

Under $10,000

Charlotte & Arthur Zitrin

Foundation

DLA Piper Foundation

Edith C. Blum Foundation, Inc.

Ford Foundation

Goldie Anna Charitable Trust

Kirkland & Ellis Foundation

KMC Foundation

Ludwig Family Foundation

Morrison & Foerster Foundation

News Corporation Foundation

Open Society

Ruth & Seymour Klein

Foundation, Inc.

Sidley Austin Foundation

Sidney & Judith Kranes

Charitable Trust

Solon E. Summerfield Foundation

Spingold Foundation

United Jewish Organizations

of Williamsburg, Inc.

GOVERNMENT

New York State Interest on Lawyer

Account Fund

New York State Housing Trust

Fund Corporation

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York State Banking Department

New York City Department of Youth

& Community Development

New York State Unified Court System

New York State Division of Criminal

Justice Services

“Her kind and courteous manner was so supportive

and helped me tremendously in handling this financial

crisis in my life at this time.” —Client

Reporter Nina Bernstein was the keynote speaker at the Justice Center’s Deferred Associate training.

The City Bar Justice Center’s mission is to increase access to justice by leveraging the resources of the New York City legal community. Drawing upon our relationship with the New York City Bar, the Justice Center provides legal assistance to those in need; mobilizes lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments, and other legal institutions to provide pro bono legal services; educates the public on legal issues; fosters strategic relationships; and impacts public policy.

Corporate Legal Departments

Academic Institutions

Law Firms

Legal Services & Nonprofit Organizations

Government Agencies Judiciary

City Bar FundIn addition to the City Bar Justice Center, the City Bar Fund supports the research, educational,

and public service activities of the following New York City Bar programs:

OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY

Created to affirm the commitment of New York City law firms and

corporate legal departments to diversity goals that have specific

time targets and milestones, the Office for Diversity annually tracks

the progress of its 126 signatories to the Association’s

Statement of Diversity Principles, which it adopted in 2003. The

Office designs programs that foster a more diverse and inclusive

legal profession, such as the Annual Diversity Champion Award,

which recognizes individuals who initiate and sustain change within

their organizations and the New York legal community.

NEW YORK CITY LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The Lawyers Assistance Program provides free, confidential

assistance to attorneys, judges, law students, and their families

who are experiencing problems with alcohol, drugs, depression,

and stress, as well as other addictions and mental health issues.

Evaluation, intervention, referral, outreach, and education is

provided by professional staff and peer support based on the

concept of “lawyers helping lawyers.”

CYRUS R. VANCE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

Working with law firms, bar associations, educational institutions,

and NGOs around the globe, the Vance Center seeks to expand

access to justice in young democracies and developing economies.

Collaborating across borders, the Center’s ongoing work includes

recruiting and supporting volunteer lawyers to work on interna-

tional public interest projects; creating a network of justice reform

advocates in Africa and Latin America; and building VanceNet.org,

a web-based, global community of advocates to promote access to

social justice.

AWARDS

• Jeremy G. Epstein Award, recognizing outstanding

volunteer attorneys with the City Bar Justice Center’s

pro bono programs.

• Bernard Botein Medal, recognizing employees of the

courts of the First Judicial Department

• Legal Services Award, honoring lawyers providing

full-time, pro bono legal services to the needy

• Municipal Affairs Award, recognizing outstanding

young lawyers in the New York City Law Department

• Henry L. Stimson Award, recognizing Assistant U.S.

Attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of

New York

• Kathryn A. McDonald Award, for service to the New

York City Family Court

• Thomas E. Dewey Award, recognizing outstanding

Assistant District Attorneys in each of the five boroughs

and in the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office

LECTURES

• Milton Handler Antitrust Review, Herman Goldman and

Mortimer H. Hess Lectures on trusts, estates, and taxation

• Leslie H. Arps, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Hon. George Bundy Smith,

Barbara Paul Robinson, and Orison S. Marden Lectures

• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women

and the Law

“Thank you for the risk you took to advocate

on my behalf in what I consider was the most

difficult period of my life. Yet I never doubted

that your organization would succeed even

though there were no guarantees. My son and

I are enjoying our home and our peace thanks

to your program.” —Client

On April 5th, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (right) delivered the annual Leslie H. Arps Lecture at the City Bar. Over 500 attendees listened to her address on the importance of judicial independ-ence and civic education. Pictured with Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge, NYS Court of Appeals.

2009 – 2010 ANNUAL REPORT

PARTNERING FOR JUSTICE

www.citybarjusticecenter.org

42 West 44th Street • New York, NY 10036 • T 212.382.6727 • F 212.221.5318

© 2010 New York City Bar. All rights reserved. Design: Carrie Chatterson Studio LLC

Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. 2010–2011 Board of Directors

PresidentSamuel W. Seymour Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

ChairAustin T. Fragomen, Jr. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

Vice PresidentsMichael J. Chepiga Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Barbara Berger Opotowsky New York City Bar

Wanji J. Walcott American Express

TreasurerDonald S. Bernstein Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Assistant TreasurerCarol S. Rosenbaum, C.P.A. New York City Bar

Secretary Mary K. Warren Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

General Counsel Alan Rothstein New York City Bar

DirectorsDavid J.B. Arroyo Scripps Networks

Nina M. Beattie Brune & Richard LLP

Alan J. Brudner Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Miriam A. Buhl Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Kwanza Butler Time Warner Inc.

Francis S. Chlapowski Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Hon. George B. Daniels U.S. District Court, SDNY

Cheryl R. David Law Office of Cheryl R. David

Michael B. de Leeuw Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Michael Delikat Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Jonathan N. Eisenberg UBS

Michele Hirshman Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Jay Holtmeier Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Conrad A. Johnson Columbia University School of Law

Edward S. Kornreich Proskauer Rose LLP

Ronald L. Marmer Jenner & Block LLP

Robin J.H. Maxwell Linklaters LLP

Hazel-Ann Mayers CBS Broadcasting Inc.

Sara E. Moss The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Hon. Juanita Bing Newton New York State Judicial Institute

Paul Schoeman Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Jeffrey Taylor Ernst & Young LLP

Barron M. Tenny The Ford Foundation

William Viets JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jim Walden Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Jane L. Wilton The New York Community Trust

Administration

Executive DirectorLynn M. Kelly

Managing AttorneyAlice Morey

Director of Pro Bono InitiativesCarol Bockner

Director of DevelopmentRebecca Nelson

Director of CommunicationsEric Friedman

Administrative AssistantDeidre Smith